TODAY’S AGENDA
DOUBLE PERIOD
ONE-MINUTE THOUGHT ON PEACE:
Be like a mountain
Teacher Assistant:
seating, book talk, vocab, prefixes and suffixes
Reminder about jobs
Return any papers
JOKES
Go over any homework due today
Reminder about SLANTS
Poem of the week:
MEMORIZE BY MONDAY
Today’s Lessons:
Period #1
WRITING AN EXCELLENT CONCLUDING SENTENCE
LET’S TRY TO MAKE THIS EXCITING!
If you go to the movies with your boyfriend or girlfriend, wouldn’t you want your last words to be very special?
WHAT ARE WE HOPING TO DO?
Learn about the importance of an exciting concluding sentence (CS)
HAVE YOU LEARNED SOMETHING LIKE THIS BEFORE?
HERE’S EXACTLY WHAT WE’RE GOING TO LEARN
1. Try to make your CS the most interesting sentence
in the paragraph.
2. Of course, it should somehow tie in with the topic sentence,
but it should not simply repeat it.
3. Make the reader say, “Wow! What a cool way to end!”
LET’S PRACTICE IT
Let's look at a fine example by Simone.
Click here.
HOW DID WE DO?
Do you think you're ready to write an exciting CS tonight?
Do you think you're ready to write an exciting CS tonight?
When all is quiet, Teacher Assistant stands and says:
"Let's take a break. Please rise,
push in chairs,
and leave quietly with thanks."
Today’s Lesson:
Period 2
Annotating a Book
LET’S TRY TO MAKE THIS EXCITING!
Have you ever taken photos on a trip or vacation?
Why?
WHAT ARE WE HOPING TO DO?
We want to learn some simple ways to do careful annotations in a book.
HAVE YOU LEARNED SOMETHING LIKE THIS BEFORE?
Have you annotated books before? HERE’S EXACTLY WHAT WE’RE GOING TO LEARN
HOW TO ANNOTATE
1. As you read, make at least one annotation on each page. It could be a star in the margin, or an exclamation point, or a question mark, or a highlighted sentence.
Be sure to be ready to discuss each page's annotation
the next day in class.
2. At the end of the assigned reading, write three sticky notes:
* a summary of the reading
* your reflection on the reading (see bookmark for prompts)
Be sure to be ready to discuss each page's annotation
the next day in class.
2. At the end of the assigned reading, write three sticky notes:
* a summary of the reading
* your reflection on the reading (see bookmark for prompts)
* your favorite sentence
MAKE SURE YOUR ANNOTATIONS ARE DONE
NEATLY AND CAREFULLY.
I WILL LOOK AT THEM THE NEXT DAY IN CLASS.20 MINUTES OF SILENT READING IN TKAM
FOLLOWED BY DISCUSSION
* In notebooks,
write covered topics in margin.
Assignment for tomorrow:
1) Write the body paragraph of a 3-paragraph essay on this topic:
"A Strange Person".
This could be a person you know,
or someone from a movie or book.
In your three chunks, try to describe
three different aspects
of this person's strangeness.
You might look up some synonyms for "strange"
and use a few of them in the paragraph,
just to keep the reader focused on the main idea.
IMPORTANT:
MAKE THE CONCLUDING SENTENCE
THE MOST INTERESTING ONE IN THE PARAGRAPH.
Post the carefully written paragraph (11-sentence recipe)
on your blog before you go to bed tonight.
I will check them tomorrow morning before school.
2) Study poem for memorization due Monday.
When all is quiet, Teacher Assistant stands and says:
"Please rise, push in chairs, and leave quietly with thanks."
